Tag Archive | "Brendan McCarthy"

Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X Mr X

Saturday, May 5, 2012

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I was prepping tomorrow’s Art For Art’s Sake post and happened to come across this…. Mr X by Paul Rivoche (via Comic Alliance) Which put me in the mood for more Mr X… so much to choose from…. and the more I look the more I can’t decide. And you must understand here that I’m [...]

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Director’s Commentary : Zaucer of Zilk

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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As we noted earlier on the blog, just this week venerable Thrill Power merchants 2000 AD launched a brand new and intriguing looking new series from the delightfully deranged minds of Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy which we have been looking forward to for some time, Zaucer of Zilk. The first episode is in this [...]

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Zaucer of Zilk

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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New tomorrow in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Prog 1775 boasts the start of a new strip by Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy, one we’ve been eagerly anticipating, Zaucer of Zilk, with Bren’s fabulously colourful artwork gracing the cover of this week’s Prog, with brilliant art and colours like an LSD bullet to the brain. Oh [...]

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Vintage McCarthy….

Saturday, January 21, 2012

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Lots of staggeringly great Brendan McCarthy artwork from long, long ago has surfaced on David Hine’s excellent Waiting For Trade blog. (Thanks to Mark Kardwell for picking it up). Too much to show you here…. but have a look at just these few bits of magnificent McCarthy genius and head to Waiting For Trade for [...]

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Scalped – McCarthy style

Friday, July 1, 2011

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The excellent DC/Vertigo series Scalped by Jason Aaron reached the landmark 50th issue this week and as part of the celebrations for reaching this milestone the great Brendan  McCarthy was asked by Jason to contribute a page – the magnificent result (which to me is hinting at Ghost Riders in the Sky, after at least [...]

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Let us massage your eyeballs with some glorious Bren McCarthy art…

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Brendan McCarthy kindly shares some gorgeous artwork with us, including Imaginary Story (as if they aren’t all imaginary, as Brendan commented) set in the Silver Age of Superman (above) and U-Babe 3, a  “great underwater adventure!” (below): But much as I enjoyed these I have to say I think this one is the piece de [...]

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Brendan McCarthy’s unused Grant Morrison script for Doom Patrol….

Saturday, April 16, 2011

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…. and he’s doodled all over it: From the FuckyeahGrantMorrison Tumblr. Originally published on The Strangeness Of Brendan McCarthy fansite where Brenden had this to say: “I found this DOOM PATROL script the other day that I had doodled all over, from Grant Morrison… It was an episode that Grant wrote for me to draw [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Anopther weekend, another selection of cracking artwork I’ve seen during the week around and about the Interthing…. (Bruce Timm gorgeousness from the very, very worth bookmarking Grantbridge Street Tumbler) (Christopher Jones does a whole Doctor Who / Bill & Ted mashup. Via Mark Kardwell.) (Charley Brown and Snoopy by Boulet. Via Drawn) (Brendan McCarthy’s Dredd [...]

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What to get the comics fan who has everything for Xmas: Bren McCarthy art

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Brendan McCarthy drops us a line to say that comic art dealer Albert Moy is holding a sale of a diverse range of Bren’s fabulous artwork from across his career, which Bren tells us will “includes outtakes from my DC Solo book, Marvel’s [Spider-Man] Fever, character designs like The Spark and Battery Girl, some great [...]

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McCarthy, Ewing, D’Israeli: Doctor What

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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As we blogged last week the brilliant Brendan McCarthy has returned to 2000 AD, collaborating with Al Ewing on Doctor What in Judge Dredd. This week’s issue, Prog 1713, boasts this fab cover by the equally fine D’Israeli, done after the style of McCarthy. D’Israeli channelling McCarthy, with more McCarthy/Ewing goodness inside? Oh drokk, yeah, [...]

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McCarthy, Dredd, Dr What?

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Look at that art and look at those colours – oh yes, unmistakably the excellent Brendan McCarthy! Bren has collaborated with that fine chap Al Ewing to create a new Judge Dredd tale called Dr What?, which features a time-travelling doctor in a Mega City portaloo changing history (no, I have no idea where they [...]

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Brendan McCarthy talks to Mark Kardwell

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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With the collected edition of the great Brendan McCarthy’s weird and wonderful Spider-Man: Fever due to hit the shelves this week, Mark Kardwell talks to Bren: “Mark: This is your first piece for Marvel Comics. What was it like working for the fabled “House of Ideas”? Brendan: Other than to cut a few lines of [...]

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Anyone want to publish the new Brendan McCarthy project?

Monday, August 23, 2010

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Well, someone, somewhere, if there’s any justice (or indeed taste) in the world of comics today, needs to be getting the cheque book and the contracts ready – Brendan McCarthy, wonderful, marvellous, legendary artist has a new superhero series called FUBAR that he’s looking to tie up with a publisher. Brendan says “I’m looking for [...]

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Atomic. Bacterial. Chemical.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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(ABC Warriors – the opening to the Bougainville massacre from 2000AD, by Pat Mills, with art from the excellent Mick McMahon, (c) Rebellion) If, like me, you’re one of the original 2000 AD generation who were there for the arrival of Thrill Power to British comics back in the day, then that title above will [...]

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McCarthy’s Spider-Man & Doctor Strange – gorgeous.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Spider-man Fever Issue 1 by Brendan McCarthy Marvel Comics It starts off like any other Spider-Man book – Spidey in New York being tackled by one of his famous gallery of villains – The Vulture this time. But it quickly gets a little more interesting, when a nearby Dr. Strange opens a long lost book [...]

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